Black Modernity
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The Black Atlantic
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Author : Paul Gilroy
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1993
The Black Atlantic written by Paul Gilroy and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
An account of the location of black intellectuals in the modern world following the end of racial slavery. The lives and writings of key African Americans such as Martin Delany, W.E.B. Dubois, Frederick Douglas and Richard Wright are examined in the light of their experiences in Europe and Africa.
Haunted Life
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Author : David Marriott
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2007
Haunted Life written by David Marriott and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Social Science categories.
In Haunted Life, David Marriott examines the complex interplay between racial fears and anxieties and the political-visual cultures of suspicion and state terror. He compels readers to consider how media technologies are "haunted" by the phantom of racial slavery. Through examples from film and television, modernist literature, and philosophy, he shows how the ideological image of a brutal African past is endlessly recycled and how this perpetuation of historical catastrophe stokes our nation's race-conscious paranoia. Drawing on a range of comparative readings by writers, theorists, and filmmakers, including John Edgar Wideman, Frantz Fanon, Richard Wright, Issac Julien, Alain Locke, and Sidney Poitier, Haunted Life is a bold and original exploration of the legacies of black visual culture and the political, deeply sexualized violence that lies buried beneath it.
Black Modernity
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Author : Ntongola Masilela
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-07-01
Black Modernity written by Ntongola Masilela and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-01 with categories.
In many ways, United States was the perfect realization of the historical experience of modernity in the twentieth-century. In this instance, perfection means the most complex, the most complicated, and the most enabling yet at the same time the most disabling. African Americans have been the subjects and the victims of the most contradictory and violent historical forces in the formation of modernity in the American context. The specificity of the violent vortex of American modernity has situated AfricanAmericans in an avant-garde position in regard to other black people in the world.In founding the New Negro Movement in the late nineteenth-century to construct a New Negro modernity, African Americans were defining and articulating their singularity within American modernity. The construction of New Negro modernistic sensibilities was present across various disciplines, art forms and systems such as religion, literature, music, philosophy, performance, preaching and ideologies.Concerning cultural and national self-definition, like the African Americans who had designated themselves as "New Negroes" in modernity in contrast to the "Old Negro" of slavery times, Africans gave meaning to themselves as "New Africans" of modern societies in contradistinction to their former selves as "Old Africans" constituted intraditional societies. Across the first half of the twentieth-century, through cultural practices, political interventions and philosophical formulations, the New Africans of the New African Movement forged the historical principles of New African modernity in emulation of the New Negro modernity of the New Negro Movement.This book assembles together scholarly reflections and poems by leading African American and South African intellectuals, writers and artists regarding the historical nature of this interaction between New African modernity and New Negro modernity within the purview of the defeat of apartheid in South Africa in 1994.
Blackness And Modernity
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Author : Cecil Foster
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2007
Blackness And Modernity written by Cecil Foster and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Political Science categories.
Cecil Foster presents a rigorous interdisciplinary analysis of blackness by challenging existing notions of blackness and arguing for the viability of a multicultural world. In Blackness and Modernity Foster traces the main philosophical, anthropological, sociological, and mythological arguments that support views of modernity as a failed quest for whiteness. He outlines how these views were implemented as part of a "world history" and shows how Canada became the first country to officially reject this approach by adopting multiculturalism. Blackness and Modernity presents four categories for understanding blackness and whiteness: the somatic, cultural, status differential, and the idealistic. The somatic - the colour of skin - is merely one category, and perhaps the least meaningful for, while it may be the most important for some people, Foster argues that multiculturalism, which he views as ontological blackness, is an attempt to make rational idealism the only category that matters.
Black Modernity
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Author : Ntongela Masilela
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Black Modernity written by Ntongela Masilela and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with African Americans categories.
One of the extraordinary events of the twentieth-century has been the emergence of Black modernities across the oceanic divide. These modernities took on particular historical forms as well as singular cultural configurations. Invariably, in their formation, realization, and actualization's, whether in Africa or in the African Diaspora, they have constituted themselves as historical discourse, usually across the Atlantic, about cultural identities, historical survivals, invention of traditions, and the formulation of new nationalities. At the center of these reciprocal exchanges and interactions in the Black world has been the "New Negro" modernity, which orchestrated the deeper strains of the cultural splay of Black historical avant-gardes globally.
Brick City Vanguard
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Author : James Smethurst
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Brick City Vanguard written by James Smethurst and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Social Science categories.
Amiri Baraka is unquestionably the most recognized leader of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the key literary and cultural figures of the postwar United States. While Baraka's political and aesthetic stances changed considerably over the course of his career, Brick City Vanguard demonstrates the continuity in his thinking about the meaning of black music in the material, psychic, and ideological develophorroment of black people. Drawing on primary texts, paratexts (including album liner notes), audio and visual recordings, and archival sources, James Smethurst takes a new look at how Baraka's writing on and performance of music envisioned the creation of an African American people or nation, as well as the growth and consolidation of a black working class within that nation, that resonates to this day. This vision also provides a way of understanding the encounter of black people with what has been called "the urban crisis" and a projection of a liberated black future beyond that crisis.
The Black Atlantic
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Author : Paul Gilroy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Black Atlantic written by Paul Gilroy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
Paris Capital Of The Black Atlantic
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Author : Jeremy Braddock
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Release Date : 2013-09-20
Paris Capital Of The Black Atlantic written by Jeremy Braddock and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
“How African-American artists and intellectuals sought greater liberty in Paris while also questioning the extent of the freedoms they so publicly praised.” —American Literary History Paris has always fascinated and welcomed writers. Throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century, writers of American, Caribbean, and African descent were no exception. Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic considers the travels made to Paris—whether literally or imaginatively—by black writers. These collected essays explore the transatlantic circulation of ideas, texts, and objects to which such travels to Paris contributed. Editors Jeremy Braddock and Jonathan P. Eburne expand upon an acclaimed special issue of the journal Modern Fiction Studies with four new essays and a revised introduction. Beginning with W. E. B. Du Bois’s trip to Paris in 1900and ending with the contemporary state of diasporic letters in the French capital, this collection embraces theoretical close readings, materialist intellectual studies of networks, comparative essays, and writings at the intersection of literary and visual studies. Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic is unique both in its focus on literary fiction as a formal and sociological category and in the range of examples it brings to bear on the question of Paris as an imaginary capital of diasporic consciousness. “Demonstrate[s] how Black writers shaped history and contributed to conflicting notions of modernity hosted in Paris . . . The wide range of writers and scholars from American and Francophone studies makes this collection very original and an exciting adventure in concepts, movements, and ideologies that could be acceptable to non-specialists as well.” —American Studies
Black Modernity
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Author : Ntongola Masilela
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Black Modernity written by Ntongola Masilela and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.
In many ways, United States was the perfect realization of the historical experience of modernity in the twentieth-century. In this instance, perfection means the most complex, the most complicated, and the most enabling yet at the same time the most disabling. African Americans have been the subjects and the victims of the most contradictory and violent historical forces in the formation of modernity in the American context. The specificity of the violent vortex of American modernity has situated African Americans in an avant-garde position in regard to other black people in the world. In founding the New Negro Movement in the late nineteenth-century to construct a New Negro modernity, African Americans were defining and articulating their singularity within American modernity. The construction of New Negro modernistic sensibilities was present across various disciplines, art forms and systems such as religion, literature, music, philosophy, performance, preaching and ideologies. Concerning cultural and national self-definition, like the African Americans who had designated themselves as "New Negroes" in modernity in contrast to the "Old Negro" of slavery times, Africans gave meaning to themselves as "New Africans" of modern societies in contradistinction to their former selves as "Old Africans" constituted in traditional societies. Across the first half of the twentieth-century, through cultural practices, political interventions and philosophical formulations, the New Africans of the New African Movement forged the historical principles of New African modernity in emulation of the New Negro modernity of the New Negro Movement. This book assembles together scholarly reflections and poems by leading African American and South African intellectuals, writers and artists regarding the historical nature of this interaction between New African modernity and New Negro modernity within the purview of the defeat of apartheid in South Africa in 1994.
Crossroads Modernism
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Author : Edward Michael Pavlić
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2002
Crossroads Modernism written by Edward Michael Pavlić and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Crossroads Modernism provides an in-depth look at how West African cultural legacies are brought to bear in the structure of a truly African American modernist creative process. Whereas much has been said about the (generally racist) use of blackness in constituting modernism, Crossroads Modernism is the first book to expose the key role that modernism has played in the constitution of blackness in African American aesthetics". --Publisher.
